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A photograph of a girl skating with a penguin skating aid in front of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.

The Culture24 Guide to Winter Ice Rinks 2011

If you're hankering after the winter weather that hasn't appeared yet this year, why not visit one of the seasonal ice rinks popping up across the country for a fix of the white stuff? This is Culture24's pick of the best.

Brighton Swimming Club, 1863

Archives of England's oldest swimming club unearthed in Brighton library

Artefacts dating back to the 1860s go on display at Brighton's Jubilee Library, examining the heritage of the Brighton Swimming Club.

Colour film still showing the sun shining through a canopy of trees

Semiconductor offer new vantage points on solar system with film show at Phoenix

Duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt stage three works (Black Rain, Heliocentric and Out of the Light) in a major new show at the Brighton gallery.

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Brighton Digital Festival inspires month of innovation

Brighton's digital festival offers interactive heists, flights to the sun, subsonic submarines and blockbuster films during an innovative month-long programme.

Original poster for the Ministry of Technology's mobile cinema

Vintage Mobile Cinema launches Screen Heritage UK programme in Brighton

Screen Heritage UK is celebrating the digitalisation of its archives with a special show in a customised Bedford van in Brighton's Jubilee Square

Photo of a silhouetted woman infront of a projected film with an image of a praying mantis

John Russell brings animated madness and praying mantises to Grey Area in Brighton

Basement venue stages London artist's film Vermillion Vortex with posters, graffiti and commissioned publication.

a screen installation showing waves within geometric patterns

Kutluğ Ataman's Mesopotamian Dramaturgies at Brighton's Old Municipal Market

Mark Sheerin enjoys Kutluğ Ataman's atavistic fascination with water in his Brighton Festival film installation.

an abstract chalk drawing of two round faces

Our Art project opens up its studio for a look into the creative world of marginalised artists

Our Art, a platform for marginalised artists in Brighton, celebrates its work with an open studio on Saturday May 21.

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Lynette Wallworth and Kutlug Ataman explore global borders in Brighton Festival 2011 shows

The Australian film festival favourite and the Turkish politically-minded artist present immersive, moving works in Brighton.

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Trail favourite the Brighton Festival Of Artists' Open Houses prepares to mark 30th birthday

Hundreds of houses will open their doors for the hugely popular series of weekends as part of the Brighton Festival.

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Radical Bloomsbury: Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell's story at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

A new exhibition re-examines the Bloomsbury painters, revealing the stories behind their works and their influences.

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In Pictures: Glorious Victorian house Preston Manor reopens for summer season in Brighton

See inside the kitchen, bedroom, dining room and walled garden as the magnificent Victorian house reopens to the public.

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Speakers fill Fabrica with opera for Brighton Festival in artist Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet

A 16th century opera written for Elizabeth I will be played through 40 speakers inside the Fabrica gallery in Brighton.

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Voodoo in vogue: Coco Cartier and Ezili Lagerfeld talk fashion, art and witchcraft

High priests of fashionm aka Chick on Speed Melissa Logan and Nadine Jessen, share the secrets of Voodoo Chanel.

a photo of a round projection of a hand drawing a shape onto graph paper

Laboratory Life brings scientists and artists together in harmony at Lighthouse in Brighton

Laboratory Life, a unique, interactive art-science laboratory enticing the public to get creative, sprawls through Lighthouse.

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